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The BX25D looks best to me. Slightly lower hours, and well maintained. I think the BX23 is too old, and I think that model is the one based off the BX2350 platform, and that had plastic panels that break easily. I had a BX2350 that had every bit of plastic on it broken, I wouldn't advise it...

That's a good looking machine. I'm sure you'll be very happy. The asian manufacturers to my mind go through a period where their quality has caught up to the competition, but the market hasn't realised it yet. And they're very good buying in that time period. I think Kioti are big enough now...

Are you completely isolating the cylinder, or just detaching the whole backhoe assembly from the tractor? Leaving the spool valve attached.

So, if I roll all that back. I think the OP has sent the tractor in, the tractor has been repaired, the dealership is saying "not covered under warranty, you need to pay." My view of some of the options offered on this thread: Take it to another dealer. Why? It's already fixed. What can...

This is a high quality forum. I fully expect it was equine.

I don't see how the grease can go outside the bearing if the bearing is tight. If the bearing is not tight, I don't see how it isn't coming out. Are you sure it's not coming out through the bearing - through the balls? Even then, I'd expect if the grease is packed tight, and the dowel is hit...

I think the 8.3GPM includes the power steering pump. No idea why that's a good way to describe tractor specifications, but it's what they all do. I'm not a fan of small petrol motors, particularly of the cheap Chinesium variety that I'd be looking at. A splitter with a good Honda motor would...

A debate sounds like good fun. I'm a bit torn - the axe mostly works fine, and I suspect if I buy a cheap log splitter the rounds that the axe doesn't want to split the splitter also won't want to split. Dad had a 3pt log splitter on his big tractor and did all his firewood with it - admittedly...

I mostly split firewood with a splitting axe. But every year I get a few knotty pieces that are hard. I saw recently an inexpensive (and therefore probably not very good) log splitter that is sized about right for a B2601 (ignoring the fact that it seems to have poor information provided about...

My old BX was also very very stiff. I'm trying to recall the cause, but it basically comes down to gunk and rust from memory, they're not complex. I think I recall it being quite difficult to take apart.

Depends who you are and what you need. I think a lot of younger people are more comfortable with emissions controls, as are many people who have them on other vehicles. This forum does have a pretty solid contingent of older guys. Having said that, it's pretty clear that if you need, say, 30HP...

I see a lot of people on here who wouldn't buy a machine they haven't personally inspected, and who are very risk averse. Perhaps that is just a US thing, but in life and in my country, I find most people are honest. Perhaps in a bigger country life starts to get dominated by scammers (not that...

Dad had a Kioti. It was a good machine, he liked it. He had a Kubota before that - an older M. My view is that you may get more features in the Kioti on paper, but there's a bit less refinement in what's there - so the basic stuff is better on the Kubota. Things like loader operation...

I did this table at one point. Older model designations, I believe sizes haven't changed. https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/bx-vs-b01-vs-b50.36719/

I think a bagger uses quite a bit of HP (depending on which one). Maybe a BX2680? If you're not going to use the loader, then don't buy it. The loader will still be available new in 5 years, and if you want it then you can buy it then. BX loaders are reasonably interchangeable, I bought a...

You can normally run a big bigger flail than a rotary cutter - rotary cutters are heavy for a tractor to lift. Then the width controls a bit how fast you can go - you can have a narrow flail and go fast, you can have a wide flail and go slow. Your back will thank you for the latter.

There's no real reason it would do differently than your riding mowers at 60" would do. Are you looking at a Kubota with a suspended deck or a ground contact deck? I think you'd get different outcomes depending on which. In the new Kubotas the B2601 (and BX) are suspended, the LX is ground...

If you're moving logs, you'll want a grapple. A B2601 doesn't have a lot of lift capacity. L2502 would lift quite a bit more. Ultimately it comes down to how short you have to cut the logs before the machine will pick them up.

That's a great looking machine. I'm sure you'll be super happy. Don't get cold feet at the last minute.

Buckets are just steel. You can panel beat/rebend them, and they weld very easily. If you don't need it to be pretty, I'd just get it fixed. Failing that, Kubota buckets are quite interchangeable. They used the same pin spacing and sizes for years across different tractor models. It could be...